199 Quotes by Paul Cezanne

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.